Blowback

Note from Hot Air management: This section is for comments from Hot Air's community of registered readers. Please don't assume that Hot Air management agrees with or otherwise endorses any particular comment just because we let it stand. A reminder: Anyone who fails to comply with our terms of use may lose their posting privilege.

Lots of ignorance in the comments. No surprise, I suppose. Low information voters are everywhere. I wonder, if you polled 100 random people on the street and asked them if you can change the Constitution, how many of them would know there’s an amendment process? Or how it works? This is yet something else that the leftists have co-opted. Hence they peddle this fiction to the idiot masses that the Constitution is a “living document” and that anyone who opposes judicial activism must be an old relic who wants to return to the days of slavery and when women weren’t allowed to vote.

Context is every thing on this. Dead in that done and in the dust bin of history and time for a new one…. OR 236 years and still going strong as it does not changes fast like a life but changes as fast as granite.

I was at this lecture! It was so great, I especially liked that there was a clear distinction made between political opinion and legal opinion. Garner had mentioned that he agreed with Scalia on the law 100%, but was personally a liberal on issues like Gun Control, Gay Marriage, etc. Scalia also mentioned that if a judge agrees politically with every case he decides, he’s a bad judge.

Scalia’s trademark wit also kept everyone interested and entertained. I got his book signed afterward too! He wouldn’t sign my pocket Constitution though…

The Republic and the Constitution are perfectly viable. They were both designed to outlive their original forms which is why they are both relevant today.

lexhamfox on January 29, 2013 at 11:41 PM

This comment is completely meaningless.

blink on January 30, 2013 at 12:25 AM

It’s entirely accurate. We have changed as a nation and the constitution has changed with us. The United States has expanded voting and abolished slavery. Of course there have been mistakes along the way but the power is still in our hands as a people to correct them or make more mistakes. We are a more perfect union than originally conceived. It remains a wonderful guide with built in flexibility and protections against our worst instincts.

Because an amendment does not alter the original thing (in this case, the Constitution).

When you place a domino atop a countertop, you may have “amended” the height of the structure, but you have not made the countertop itself any higher. One plus one is still one plus one, one and then the other.

The AMENDMENT is one, the Constitution in it’s original remains as is.